Blue Jacket

Blue Jacket (1743-1810), born Weyapiersenwah, was a Shawnee war chief and a leader of the Native Americans during the Northwest Indian War.

Biography
Blue Jacket was born in 1743 in present-day Ross County, Ohio to the Shawnee tribe of Native Americans. Blue Jacket sought to maintain the land rights of the Shawnee tribe, fighting in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774 and the American Revolutionary War against the patriots in alliance with Great Britain, and in 1791 the outbreak of the Northwest Indian War led to Blue Jacket defeating Arthur St. Clair's army at the Battle of the Wabash, but on 20 August 1794 his Indian army was defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in the last battle of the war. In 1795 and 1805, he signed treaties with the United States that ceded much of Ohio to the Americans, and he died in 1810.